Weird Weekend is our regular Saturday column where we celebrate PC gaming oddities: peculiar games, strange bits of trivia, forgotten history. Pop back every weekend to find out what Jeremy, Josh and Rick have become obsessed with this time, whether it's the canon height of Thief's Garrett or that time someone in the Vatican pirated Football Manager.
Halo: Combat Evolved may have finally ended PC gaming's reign as the de-facto FPS platform, but it was by no means the first shooter to try. Rare put a fair old dent in the PC's shooter hegemony with GoldenEye and Perfect Dark, while other shooters like Turok, Powerslave (Exhumed in the UK) and Alien Trilogy all showed it was possible, at least in theory, to drag first-person monster-blasting kicking and screaming away from the PC.
